Procurement Manager - Sir Kensington's

Job description

Title: Associate Procurement Manager

About Us – Please allow us to introduce ourselves

Sir Kensington's makes condiments with character. We work to bring integrity and charm to ordinary and overlooked food. Beginning in 2010, we realized that while food was evolving, condiments weren't. So, we decided to make them better, starting with ketchup. Since then, we launched mayonnaise, mustard, and Fabanaise, and gained a cult following. Now, you can find our condiments in hundreds of leading restaurants, thousands of leading retailers, and millions of meal kit boxes across the country. But we're just getting started. We aim to be America's leading natural condiment brand, and we need your help.

In April of 2017, Sir Kensington's joined Unilever, the leading progressive global consumer products company. With them, we're part of a family of global brands helping to define the future of good food and good business. With access to Unilever's resources and expertise, we will continue to operate independently from our SoHo headquarters.

About the Role –When you aren't eating this is what you will do…

The Procurement Analyst will be a critical member within the Unilever/Sir Kensington's Operations team helping to run a streamlined business supporting our contract manufacturing and supplier network. This role will be responsible for maintaining the commercial relationship with current third-party manufacturers, maintaining daily activities required to ensure suppliers properly fulfill to our manufacturers, building a roadmap to execute our cost savings targets, managing contract pricing changes, and helping to resolve payment issues with suppliers. This role is a unique opportunity to gain experience both within Unilever's expansive procurement network as well as within a smaller, start-up company like Sir Kensington's. You will be paramount in creating the ideal ways of working so that Sir Kensington's business model functions successfully within Unilever's procurement systems and teams. As such, expect unique responsibilities that fit this hybrid role. Key duties include:

· Gaining in-depth understanding of Unilever's Procurement processes and extended teams that support Procurement. Gaining the same level of understanding of Sir Kensington's business model and co-creating an optimal ways-of-working.
· Manage contract pricing changes for current and future manufacturers/suppliers
· Manage contract manufacturer's compliance with the USQS program
· Lead supplier synergy program between Sir Kensington's and Unilever
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· Design and prepare cost models and benchmarks to support margin target
· Invoice and payment support

This role will be based 50/50 in the Unilever Englewood Cliffs office and Sir Kensington's NYC office.

About You – Necessary ingredients

Are you a doer? A problem solver? An explorer on a culinary journey? You'll be in good company here and Sir Kensington himself would be delighted to have you aboard. We're doing things differently, and we need your help. Here are the requirements of the role:

· Previous experience within Unilever Procurement preferred
· Prior SAP experience preferred
· Strong analytical mindset – ability to adapt to different supply chain systems and high proficiency with Microsoft Excel
· 1-2 years Supply Chain experience
· Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with suppliers
· Willingness to learn and grow with a rapidly expanding business and supply chain model
· Love of food required!

The Special Sauce – Figuratively speaking (though we also make special sauce)

If you're looking for an entrepreneurial, fast-paced startup environment, you'll thrive at Sir Kensington's. But there's more to it than that. If you're naturally curious and seek to contribute at a purpose-driven food company, you'll feel at home here. We extend Sir Kensington's ethos of "integrity and charm" into the way we work.

· Opportunity to contribute at a fast growing and entrepreneurial company
· All the condiments (with character) you can eat
· A supportive environment which values profession development, personal responsibility, and candor
· Benefits include health insurance, 401(k), restaurant stipend, unlimited snacks, and more

Sir Kensington's Mission and Values

Our Mission:
To bring integrity and charm to ordinary and overlooked food.

Our Values:
1— Our secret ingredient is people.
Our work is teamwork. We foster a supportive environment where our team works with a sense of purpose, potential, and play.
2   —   We act with honor, even when no one is looking.
We take pride in our work, delivering on our own sense of potential at every opportunity. Our workmanship is evidence of who we are.
3   —   We make condiments with character.
Our products are the most tangible manifestation of our work. They are a reflection of our unique philosophy and distinguished by what we call “Kensington Quality.”
4   —   We think long term
We move quickly, but are patient enough to make big things happen. In all parts of our business, we build genuine, lasting relationships.

Equal Opportunity Employment

As Sir Kensington's first value states, our secret ingredient is people. We seek to recruit and include people with a diversity of abilities, backgrounds, and cultures to better serve our diverse community of customers.

Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/Persons with Disabilities.

Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination under Federal law. For more information, please see EEO is the Law .